I'm grateful to Dan Wyke for featuring Inventing Truth on his Other Lives blog today. He's chosen Extranjero as a sample poem and you can read it here.
"Extranjero", of course, means "foreigner", and the piece deals with my linguistic development since reaching Extremadura. I initially aimed to shake off my English accent when speaking Spanish, but a few years later that achievement brought its own pitfalls!
Rajani Radhakrishnan’s moving, intense No Way Home tells us what to expect
from its opening ‘Prologue’ poem, sub-titled ‘the poet as storyteller’: It
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